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Radio Times for the week of 7-13th January 1967. Contains details of many different TV shows of the period. Contents include Doctor Who, The Monkees, Adam Adamant Lives, The Forsyte Saga, Till Death us Do Part, Bewitched, The Rat Patrol, Softly Softly, Cathy Come Home, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

BBC Publicity photograph from Adam Adamant Lives! Shows Adam brandishing his sword stick. This has been autographed by Gerald Harper. Details on back date photo to 6th June 1966 and the episode “A vintage year for scoundrels”.

This issue of the UK TV listings magazine featured The Monkees on the cover. Inside were many other classic shows of the period such as Dr Who, Adam Adamant Lives, Till death us do part, Softly Softly, The Likely Lads, Get Smart , The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., etc.

This issue of the UK daily newspaper featured a large photograph of Juliet Harmer on the front page, with a small piece on her and “Adam Adamant Lives”. On the TV listings page it has a small photograph from “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”.

“Adam Adamant Lives” was a cover feature of this listings magazine for the issue cover dated June 18 – 24, 1966. A one page photographic feature also appeared in the same issue. Along with features and listings for many other shows.

An annual was produced for 1968, published by TV publications Ltd., being bound and printed by Purnell & Sons. It contained a mixture of text and strip stories. The front cover showed a photograph of Adam Adamant’s face framed by an oval. This is surrounded by 4 full-length drawings of him, one in each quarter. Adam Adamant is written in yellow at the top.

The back cover shows a full-length photograph of Adam brandishing his swordstick, on an off-white background. The spine is also off-white, with “ADAM ADAMANT annual 1968” in black. The BBC licensed this product in early 1967, as well as a comic strip, for TV Comic, also published by the same firm.

Thomas Woodman wrote the stories, illustrations by Selby Donnison.

These stories were:

Text

Escape of the Snake
Holiday for Spies
Train to Nowhere
Men from the Sea

Strip

The Mask of Terror
Caravan of Terror

This copy of the annual has been autographed by both Gerald Harper, and Jack May who played Adam Adamant and Simms respectively.

Diecast Machine Tools Ltd. (Lone Star) 1967
The BBC licensed this product in Oct. 1967 with the licence lasting until Dec. 1968. Very basically, this is a plastic swordstick similar to the one issued for the Avengers. Swordstick was issued on a display card, Originally this was issued with a small plastic ring, bearing the letters “A A” , which would have been clipped onto the sword’s handle. Another notable feature is the “hidden” compartment in the sticks handle, for carrying a supply of ammunition for the sword sticks cork firing feature.